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For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (1976)

kottke.org published 2016-08-263 min read

Here’s a gem from the archive of the NY Times. One day in September 1976, NY Times food critic Mimi Sheraton and Colonel Harland Sanders stopped into a Manhatta

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